Frab’s Magazines, the wonderful Italian magazine shop. I’d first come across Frab’s last spring, and fell into a deep (and expensive) rabbit hole of magazine ordering; I’m still reading my way through ...

Where a dead lift — which we tested earlier in the month — is picking up a barbell off the floor, a back squat is holding the barbell on your shoulders, squatting down, and then standing up. I ...

We’re in a six week cycle of strength conditioning at Kinetic, and today’s workout was a build to a single “RPE 10” deadlift (“lift as much as you can while maintaining technique”). I lifted 245 ...

Marcela Garcés is a professor at Siena College in New York, and as a side hustle she and her husband Yuri Morejón run La Centralita, a culinary studio that aims, among other things, “to teach guests ...

Manuel Moreale writes about his frustrations with using Ko-Fi as a "micropayments" system to support his work: It honestly sucks that in 2024 there’s not a good way to support creators with small ...

One of the casualties of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, was a plum tree that Catherine and her father planted many years ago. The tree had been a prolific producer of plums for years— I made a tasty ...

“If I could wave a magic wand, and change one thing about your life, what would it be?” These are the types of questions uncles ask, I suppose. At least curious uncles like me. The younger nephew’s ...

Until earlier this week, I wasn’t really conscious of how often I use the ability of my iPhone to respond automatically to me saying “Hey Siri.” But then, for some unknown reason, it lost this ability ...